Games are first of four competitions nationally aimed at linking wounded and injured veteran and active-duty military to their local communities.

Valor Games Southeast, a three-day competition in adapted sports for wounded and injured veterans and active-duty service members. The contests will be held at the Atlantic Coast Conference universities in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

About 100 former or current members of the armed forces will compete in the Games on May 21-23. The Valor Games Southeast games will be the first in a series of four regional competitions nationwide.

Events including rowing, archery, cycling, air rifle and volleyball will be played in Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University, the Dean E. Smith Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in the Reynolds Coliseum area at N.C. State University.

Contestants can register at www.valor-games-southeast.bridge2sports.org/index.php/register.

The public can attend the games, and admission is free.

It is the first time that the Valor Games will be played outside of Chicago, where for the past two years, wounded and injured veterans and active-duty members competed in a series of sports in the Valor Games Midwest. This year, the competitions will expand to the Southeast, west and Southwest.